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05/16/2025

Longtime Pueblo charter school with financial woes to close after losing state appeal

The board voted 7-1 to reject Chávez/Huerta K-12 Preparatory Academy’s request to overturn the Pueblo 60 district’s January decision to end the charter contract because of what the district officials described as ongoing fiscal mismanagement at the school.

05/15/2025

Minnesota’s Charter School Fraud Crisis is Part of a Nationwide Pattern

In the state where charter schools were first legally authorized, ‘school choice’ schemes have given rise to graft and mismanagement.

05/13/2025

Public Money, Private Control: Inside New Orleans’ Charter School Overhaul

What began as a response to disaster became a blueprint for disruption. Teachers were fired, unions were broken, and entire communities lost control over neighborhood schools. Millions of public dollars have since flowed through charter management organizations with limited oversight, while families continue to navigate a maze of enrollment lotteries, inconsistent services, and school closures.

05/10/2025

If Approved, Religious Charter Schools Will Shift Yet More Money from Traditional Public Schools

If the court allows churches to operate religious charter schools, the public education system, as Americans know it, will take on an entirely new face and set of financial challenges.

05/08/2025

DC families feel stranded as second charter school closure disrupts education

7News looked into the challenges the families are facing with charter schools and who will be held accountable for charter schools taking millions of public dollars, then shutting down operations.

05/07/2025

Letter: Limit public funding for cyber charter schools

For private cyber school corporations that drained off $1 billion in tax dollars from our school district’s budgets in 2023-24, not so much.

05/06/2025

Editorial: With Limestone’s demise, take back control over SC charter schools

Misused SC law allows private colleges to authorize charter schools to receive tax dollars, engage in authorizer shopping to avoid being closed .

05/06/2025

TEA sends letter to Fort Worth ISD regarding school with 5th straight unacceptable rating

The fifth consecutive unacceptable performance rating for the Leadership Academy at Forest Oak’s 6th-grade campus may lead to its closure.

05/05/2025

Lawmakers are trying once more to pass sweeping changes to charter school oversight. Here’s what they want.

AB 84 is meant to address myriad issues exposed by cases of fraud, but charter schools say it goes too far.

05/02/2025

New Report—North Carolina Charter Schools: Undermining Quality Education for All

However, with the closure of one charter school in July 2024 and another in September 2024, 208 charter schools received well over $1.18 billion in taxpayer money, even as public-school districts remain underfunded.

05/01/2025

Charter School Leaders Balk at Telling Parents Minneapolis Closing at the End of Year

Charter School Leaders Balk at Telling Parents Minneapolis Closing at the End of Year

05/01/2025

School board closes Constellation Charter School in emergency meeting

During an emergency meeting on Thursday, the School Board of Alachua County (SBAC) unanimously voted to shut down Waldo’s Constellation Charter School of Gainesville (CCSG), effective at the end of the May 1 school day.

04/29/2025

‘Pretty much a done deal’: Roseland Collegiate Prep to close June 2026, district leaders planning ahead

Yet another Sonoma County school district is discussing closing one of its campuses to address a budget deficit.

04/25/2025

DC parents scramble to find new schools as Hope Community Public Charter School announces closure

Parents and staff at the school told DC News Now that poor leadership and mismanagement at the school are to blame for the abrupt end to operations at the school.

04/22/2025

The Primary School, Zuckerberg-backed school for low-income students, to shut down

The Primary School, which operates two tuition-free schools in the Bay Area and is financially backed by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, will be closing down at the end of the 2025-26 school year. The Primary School has schools serving students in East Palo Alto and in the East Bay.